When I do read, which is pretty rare since I just can't stare at words on a page for too long, I tend to go scifi. Pretty much anything by Ray Bradbury or Michael Crichton. Also loved the Dragonriders of Pern series which is ginormous by Anne McCaffrey. Read a bunch of Star Wars off-shoots (the Thrawn Trilogy was really good by Timothy Zahn), and one of my all-time favorite series which got made into a movie recently that turned out pretty good for a movie based on a book was Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.